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The real Boris Johnson

The inside story of how the Conservative leadership candidate rose from Brussels hack to likely next prime minister

19 July 2019

  • FILE PHOTO: Boris Johnson, a leadership candidate for Britain’s Conservative Party, attends a hustings event in Darlington, Britain, July 5, 2019. To match Special Report BRITAIN-EU/JOHNSON-RUSSIAN REUTERS/Scott Heppell/File Photo

    Women more likely than men to view Boris Johnson as dishonest – Guardian quiz

    More than two-thirds of female respondents view Johnson’s gaffes as an act compared with just over half of men

18 July 2019

  • Boris Johnson has been a guest of the media billionaire Evgeny Lebedev on several occasions.

    Boris Johnson refuses to answer questions over party in Lebedev mansion

  • Many of Boris Johnson’s staff became frustrated by his inconsistency and failure to grasp detail.

    What diplomats really think about Boris Johnson

17 July 2019

  • Boris takes a selfie

    'A celebrity, not a leader': how Vote Leave harnessed the Johnson effect

    The No 10 contender honed his PG Wodehouse persona through years of TV appearances – and voters lapped it up
  • Boris Johnson<br>London Mayor Boris Johnson delivers Vote Leave speech in Dartford. London Mayor Boris Johnson delivers a ‘Vote Leave’ speech in Dartford, Kent, south-east Engand, 11 March 2016. Britain will vote in an EU referendum June 23 whether to stay in or to leave the EU. EPA/ANDY RAIN

    Boris Johnson's support for EU revealed in Leon Brittan letter

    No 10 frontrunner wrote ‘pro-European letter’ to Tory peer’s widow a year before campaigning for leave
  • boris zip wire

    Beastliness, buses and blunders: Boris Johnson's career in gaffes

    Throughout his long career, Boris Johnson has displayed a curious knack for getting himself in hot water – but are his many controversies the product of a gaffe-prone character or something more sinister? Scroll through to decide for yourself

16 July 2019

  • oris Johnson's failed vanity projects as London mayor

    Boris Johnson 'ignored expert advice' over £1bn mayoral vanity projects

  • Boris Johnson’s design legacy in London left the taxpayer with a bill of more than £940m after his eight years as mayor. The Guardian's design and architecture critic, Oliver Wainwright, takes a tour of the worst monuments to Johnson's ego etched across the capital.&nbsp;He finds out what they really cost us then and how much we are still paying for them now

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    Boris Johnson's failed vanity projects as London mayor – video

  • Boris Johnson stuck on a zipline

    'Like a damp towel on a line': the day Boris Johnson got stuck on a zip wire

  • Joanna Lumley with Boris Johnson.

    'You pay for it, chum': Johnson's struggle to save his garden bridge

  • Boris Johnson's early days as mayor: 'It was total, total chaos'

  • The real Boris Johnson: politician or journalist?

15 July 2019

  • Boris Johnson reads from his book Johnson’s Life of London, which he wrote while the city’s mayor.

    'Spasms of incorrectitude': Johnson's own words on lust, racism and the EU

    The likely next PM has demonstrated his unique turn of phrase in a number of books
  • Boris Johnson graphic

    Laughter and lies: Johnson's journey from journalist to MP

    The Spectator editor already had a reputation for getting away with it when he was elected MP for Henley

    • Boris Johnson claimed Islam put Muslim world 'centuries behind'

    • Perceptions quiz: who do you think is the real Boris Johnson?

    • 'Meritocrat v toff': Boris Johnson's losing battle for the Oxford Union

14 July 2019

  • Boris Johnson

    'A couple of black eyes': Johnson and the plot to attack a reporter

    The intended victim of a beating planned by the politician’s friend has called for an apology
  • Stuart Collier

    Reporter who Boris Johnson conspired to have beaten up demands apology

    Stuart Collier tells the Guardian the Tory frontrunner is not fit to be prime minister
  • Boris Johnson in Brussels in about 1990

    How Boris Johnson's Brussels-bashing stories shaped British politics

    As a correspondent, the likely future PM produced exaggerated tales that were lapped up at home
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